Cat fight, cat fight, this from Jason Calacanis’ blog:
That’s Gawker’s standard blogging process–print a lie, admit you screwed up, but never change the error… sort of Jayson Blair style
I love these wars, they are sooooo much fun 🙂
Tags: Nick Denton, Jason Calacains, Gawker Media, Weblogs Inc
A bloke in the States is in strife for using a cafe’s free wireless connection without buying stuff from the shop….but all I can say from country Western Australia is I wish I could get any wireless here, anywhere, which of course with the exception of the local McDonalds outlet (which is pay of course, and very expensive thanks to Telstra), just doesn’t exist. For that matter I’m not really aware of there being free Wireless in pretty much any part of Australia for that matter….it’s one of the few things I can be jealous of American’s on.
Want an invite to SixApart’s new you beaut MySpace killer? I’ve got invites to Vox, at least to the starter version which doesn’t allow you to blog but atleast get’s you in the door (I think you get upgraded later?). Leave a comment with your email address included or drop me an email directly.
Also I’ve been upgraded to a standard Vox account so I’ve been able to play with all the extra’s on the service….and I’ve got to say: WOW! Not only is it pretty, it’s easy to use, something I cant say for MySpace (or MT installations :-p ). You can check out my Vox blog here. Great job from the SixApart team though. I’ve already got more blogs than I can poke a stick at, but there is enough little extra’s in Vox that I might find myself coming back for more 🙂
Looks like Mike Arrington is under attack on two fronts: from Nick Denton’s Valleywag for Text Link Ads sponsorship, and by Adam Kalsey for a Zoho backflip allegedly due to a sponsorship.
I don’t know enough about the Zoho stuff, but the Valleywag attack is complete and utter sh*te. Text Link Ads are a legitimate form of advertising, indeed, you’ll see them over most b5media blogs under “marketplace”, because it’s a cost effective way for advertisers to advertise with us, and yes, they do result in links and traffic to these sites directly from the blogs. I couldn’t say that some people wouldn’t be using this as part of a search engine strategy, but you know, we can’t all hold swish NY socialite parties to get our links now can we Nick?
Tags: Nick Denton, Valleywag, Gawker Media, Mike Arrington, Tech Crunch
Big news overnight: Seeking Alpha has the scoop on Google testing an affiliate marketing program, or what they are calling a CPA (cost per action) program that many say will be a Value Click Media/ Commission Junction (CJ) killer.
Can’t say I disagree with this analysis. I’ve never liked CJ, from when they kicked me out of the program way back then because I apparently wasn’t earning enough, to today, where I have a CJ account and yet it would have to be the most cumbersome affiliate system I’ve ever worked with. For starters, you’ve got to apply to be an affiliate with most of the programs, and over half of the companies automatically reject you because you don’t have a US address (really clever this…after all, where does the traffic come from?), then there’s setting up an ad…it’s exactly the same system they were using in 1999.
Having said this though, I do have a Value Click Media account due to their acquisition of Fastclick, and that’s a reasonable service in terms of filling CPM inventory when you can’t be bothered selling it yourself (or you’re too small to really do it yourself).
But imagine Google entering this market. The ease of use of Adsense applied to affiliate marketing! Hopefully they’ll set the entry barriers low and support similar functions to say Clickbank and then the little guy can get a decent service as well, like Google has allowed with Adwords. This marketplace is well and truly overdue for a shakeup, and hence I welcome our Google overlords to it 🙂
Tags: Google, Google CPA, Valueclick
This from the SMH:
“It is the fundamental right of all Australians to access the internet free of pornography and offensive material,” a Liberal senator, Guy Barnett, said yesterday. He was one of 62 members of the Coalition parties who signed a letter to the Prime Minister last year calling for a ban on offensive web sites.
Wrong Senator Barnett. It’s the fundamental right of all Australian’s to have free and unfiltered access to the internet..after all what I consider as offensive is different to what you might, and I’d think adults are grown up enough to make that decision….but it could be worse, you could be supporting the ALP plan to filter the content via ISP, aka The North Korea plan.
First time I’ve seen this: Dave Winer has posted he’s dropping feeds that include the Feedburner extra’s such as “email this” and “add to de.licio.us” which he calls “feeds of evil”. Personally, I don’t use Feedburner because I’m not willing to give up control of my feed….but I’ve never though of it in terms that some people find the bits underneath annoying….something new for a Monday, any way 🙂
Tags: Dave Winer
This from a former 9rules Channel editor:
I left 9rules because I can’t associate my writing and my faith with an organization wherein the leaders are purposely building their personas around vulgar and demeaning antics. ScrivsTyme is just too closely related to 9rules. I know, “to each their own.” I agree 100%. I’m just choosing not to associate my life’s work to “another’s own.” This is the number one reason I left. There are others, such as traffic, purpose, and benefit. I will avoid going into those as they are not the main reason. I love the crew, but I simply don’t agree with the direction. I own that as my own problem and wish them all nothing but the best.
This speaks for itself, so I won’t add any comments.
I’ve always though Scoble was a bit of a lackey, but today I read something that gave me a new found respect for the guy, a guy who’s willing to take a (real) risk and give something a go, from Slashdot:
Q: What would have kept you at Microsoft? Money? Relocation? More Channel9 cameras/staff? Free HDTVs?
A: Actually they offered almost all of that stuff (they didn’t try the HDTV’s) and it still didn’t work cause I wanted to do something completely different than what I was doing here. I also wanted to see if I could build something from scratch. Yeah, money and being close to my son played into it too, but when I looked around I didn’t see something that would keep me excited.
Tags: Robert Scoble
Check out Macrus of Plenty of Fish’s Adsense Cheque:
$991,773.04 for two months…..wow!
Tags: Plenty of Fish